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    • Victorel PetrovichV
      Victorel Petrovich @Alan Kilborn
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      @Alan-Kilborn said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

      what the differences between the various types are…

      Some historic difference in how OS-s mark line endings, and that a user better stick to the one for their OS.
      What else a normal user needs to know about them?

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      • mkupperM
        mkupper @Mark Olson
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        I had no idea that Maxwell Smart was lurking on the forums. Only he would know the old Ctrl-F at end of line trick.

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        • Alan KilbornA
          Alan Kilborn @Victorel Petrovich
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          @Victorel-Petrovich said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

          Some historic difference in how OS-s mark line endings, and that a user better stick to the one for their OS.
          What else a normal user needs to know about them?

          My point was that OP seemed to have no clue about line-endings at all, and that anyone using a text editor should have some idea about them (and probably also the differences between hard line endings and “wrapped text”).

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          • Victorel PetrovichV
            Victorel Petrovich @Alan Kilborn
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            @Alan-Kilborn OK, I thought you had in mind WAY more differences for him.

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            • Troglo37T
              Troglo37 @Alan Kilborn
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              @Alan-Kilborn and everyone else, I do not use Notepad++ as a text editor. As I’ve stated before in another thread, I use it as a repository for thousands of videos I’ve DL complete with the name of the video, and the link.

              I use it because of the aesthetics of it, and other features that have nothing to do with text editing per se.

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              • Alan KilbornA
                Alan Kilborn @Troglo37
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                @Troglo37 said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

                I do not use Notepad++ as a text editor.

                LOL, you are sooo confused. :-)

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                • Troglo37T
                  Troglo37 @Alan Kilborn
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                  @Alan-Kilborn I thought it was obvious what I mean. I am not a power user of Notepad++. I know nothing about programming or codes used for Notepad++, etc.

                  I simply have many tabs. Some for movies, some for clips, and others for several other things not video related.

                  I use it because I have a colored background, tab fonts, and tabs. I also like the ability to customize the toolbar.

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                  • PeterJonesP
                    PeterJones @Troglo37
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                    @Troglo37 said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

                    I thought it was obvious what I mean

                    To be fair, the way you worded it the first time made it sound like you were opening the video files in Notepad++, which would be quite strange, since there is no text in binary video files (but it wouldn’t be the first time someone has tried something like that, otherwise we wouldn’t have needed this FAQ).

                    Your updated description makes it sound much more like you’re storing text-based lists of movies and links, which is “using Notepad++ as a text editor”, despite your claim to the contrary. (I just searched through and found the discussion from two years ago where we worked very hard to clear up your misunderstandings about what tabs were for in Notepad++ and you briefly mentioned that you were using it for lists of videos there, too… But, to be fair, that was two years ago, and remembering such an arcane tidbit about one specific user out of thousands of users, two years after the last mention, would be quite the feat of memory on our part.)

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                    • Troglo37T
                      Troglo37 @PeterJones
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                      @PeterJones I thought after several of my posts that my former issues would be hard to forget!

                      BTW, can the CRLF & LF be activated by keys? I thought that I accidentally hit something on the keyboard while sleeping. I definitely didn’t click the toolbar deliberately and figured it was more likely it was enabled by keys since nothing I saw on the toolbar looked like it was the cause of it.

                      I’m still shocked that what looks like a paragraph button was the solution. Before starting this thread, I thought it read CTRL F and I was using CRTL+F in an attempt to get rid of CRLF & LF. DON’T LAUGH LOL!

                      And what do the acronyms CRLF & LF mean?

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                      • PeterJonesP
                        PeterJones @Troglo37
                        last edited by PeterJones

                        @Troglo37,

                        BTW, can the CRLF & LF be activated by keys?

                        Not by default. You could use Shortcut Mapper to apply a shortcut (because they are entries in the View > Show Symbol > sub-menu), but I doubt you’ve added that. So I have to assume you were accidentally trying to click something else (maybe the word-wrap toggle button to its left, or maybe the Plugins menu directly above it)

                        since nothing I saw on the toolbar looked like it was the cause of it.
                        I’m still shocked that what looks like a paragraph button was the solution.

                        The pilcrow ¶ symbol has been used to represent “paragraph” for decades. It’s the same symbol that MS Word uses for toggling between showing hidden characters/codes and not. It’s quite a common aspect of such user interfaces.

                        And what do the acronyms CRLF & LF mean?

                        CR = carriage return
                        LF = line feed
                        CRLF = carriage return then line feed

                        They have been part of ASCII nomenclature since ASCII was introduced in the 1960s. They harken back to the typewriter, when you push the big bar on the right to go to the next line (or paragraph), where it executes two things: 1) it returns the carriage (the cylinder that’s shifting the paper to keep it in line with the typewriter keys) to the left (hence Carriage Return), and 2) it advances to the next line (by rotating, to feed another line’s worth of paper – hence Line Feed).

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                        • CoisesC
                          Coises @PeterJones
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                          @PeterJones said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

                          They have been part of ASCII nomenclature since ASCII was introduced in the 1960s. They harken back to the typewriter

                          And especially the teletype. You would type a password, and the computer would immediately send a carriage return, without a line feed, and type over what you just typed with Xs, do it again with Ns, and again with another letter or two that I don’t remember, so it would be obscured if anyone looked at the roll. Carriage returns without line feed were also used to underline.

                          Yep, I’m that old.

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                          • TBugReporterT
                            TBugReporter @Coises
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                            @Coises said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

                            and again with another letter or two

                            Probably @s.

                            Yep, I’m that old.

                            Oh dear - that must mean that I’m old too! 🥵😉

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                            • Troglo37T
                              Troglo37 @PeterJones
                              last edited by Troglo37

                              @PeterJones said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:
                              “Not by default. You could use Shortcut Mapper to apply a shortcut (because they are entries in the View > Show Symbol > sub-menu), but I doubt you’ve added that. So I have to assume you were accidentally trying to click something else (maybe the word-wrap toggle button to its left, or maybe the Plugins menu directly above it)”

                              I wasn’t trying to click on either of those. The only things I use on the toolbar are Save, Undo, Redo, Previous Bookmark, and Next Bookmark. None of them are anywhere near the Pilcrow button.

                              It happened while I was not using the PC. That’s why I had no clue as to how it happened. So since I was told here that it cannot be activated by keys (because I didn’t enable that feature) that means it was done by accidental pressure on my wireless trackball mouse.

                              The cursor was accidentally moved to the toolbar because I always leave the cursor on the main body, not the toolbar. That’s the reason why I figured it was likely done by accidentally hitting some keys.

                              P.S. Why is undefined displayed?

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                              • Alan KilbornA
                                Alan Kilborn @Troglo37
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                                @Troglo37

                                Despite your protestations of “mouse” innocence, it is way too easy to have an errant mouse click do what happened.

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                                • Troglo37T
                                  Troglo37 @Alan Kilborn
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                                  @Alan-Kilborn I was sleeping when it happened.

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                                  • PeterJonesP
                                    PeterJones @Troglo37
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                                    @Troglo37,

                                    @Alan-Kilborn I was sleeping when it happened.

                                    … or didn’t notice, as you were leaving your computer, that you bumped it, which is much more likely than your wireless mouse sending a random click while you were asleep. (Unless you have other people in the house, or a cat or other curious pet, in which case it’s suddenly much more likely.)

                                    But regardless, you now know how to toggle that back to the setting you prefer, and have hopefully learned something more about Notepad++

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                                    • Troglo37T
                                      Troglo37 @PeterJones
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                                      @Alan-Kilborn @PeterJones Wow, after telling you what happened, you’re telling me what happened in my own bed. I take care of my mother who is in hospice. I don’t get much sleep because she needs round-the-clock care. Because I’m so tired, many times I fall asleep using the PC.

                                      To make it clear, after I click something (I already stated what they are) on the toolbar, I immediately move it away to continue what I’m doing in the main body, so it’s impossible that the cursor was left on the toolbar.

                                      From your statement, it seems you haven’t the foggiest idea about a trackball mouse, especially the one I own. The mouse itself does not move to operate it. My trackball is set to move very fast with a slight touch, and it’s easy to click if light pressure is put on it.

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                                      • Alan KilbornA
                                        Alan Kilborn @Troglo37
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                                        @Troglo37 said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

                                        I take care of my mother who is in hospice.

                                        Sorry to hear; never a good situation. :-(

                                        As to the other…yeah, right…we’re the ones without foggiest idea of things…

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                                        • PeterJonesP
                                          PeterJones @Troglo37
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                                          @Troglo37 said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

                                          @Alan-Kilborn @PeterJones Wow, after telling you what happened, you’re telling me what happened in my own bed.

                                          Actually, I had no idea that the computing and the going to bed were co-located. That highly changes the probabilities.

                                          I take care of my mother who is in hospice.

                                          I’m sorry. That sucks.

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                                          • mkupperM
                                            mkupper @Troglo37
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                                            @Troglo37 said in How Do I Remove Highlighted CTRL F & LF From Each Line of Text?:

                                            BTW, can the CRLF & LF be activated by keys? I thought that I accidentally hit something on the keyboard while sleeping. I definitely didn’t click the toolbar deliberately and figured it was more likely it was enabled by keys since nothing I saw on the toolbar looked like it was the cause of it.

                                            You may have mice that dance on the keyboard while you sleep. You can toggle the CRLF end of line thing using the keyboard but it’s not easy. Alt-V to bring up the View Menu, “S” (or down arrow a few times) to get down to Show Symbol, right-arrow to get to the Symbols sub menu, down-arrow to get to Show end of Line and finally the Enter key to toggle the Show End of Line state.

                                            It seems far more likely that the blue ¶ in the menu bar was tapped via the mouse. That enables or disables all of the View / Show Symbol options above the divider line in the Show Symbol sum-menu.

                                            You have not said if you checked the keyboard shortcut mapper list. It’s under Settings / Shortcut mapper. Switch to the Main menu tab and take a look at around line 179 which is Show End of Line in the View category. If there anything in the Shortcut column for that line then that’s the keyboard shortcut to toggle display of the end of line marks (usually CRLF).

                                            FWIW, I once had a ghost keyboard in my office. It turned out to be a wireless keyboard buried in a corner of the room. I had paired it with my desktop at one point to debug something and then forgot about it until something bumped the keyboard enough to press keys.

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